Determiners
Subtitle: universals and variation
By: edited by Jila Ghomeshi [sic], Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko.
Contributors: Ghomeshi, Jila.; Paul, Ileana.; Wiltschko, Martina.
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today -- v. 147
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027255303
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Determiners; Definiteness (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Determiners: universals and variation / Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul & Martina Wiltschko; title: Part I. The features of determiners: 1. What's in a determiner and how did it get there? / Martina Wiltschko; title: 2. The proper D connection / Jila Ghomeshi & Diane Massam; title: 3. Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry / Elizabeth Cowper & Daniel Currie Hall; title: Part II. The function of determiners: 4. From local blocking to Cyclic Agree: The role and meaning of determiners in the history of French / Eric Mathieu; title: 5. Kinds of predicates and reference to kinds in Hebrew / Keren Tonciulescu; title: Part III. Definiteness and beyond: 6. On the presence versus absence of determiners in Malagasy / Ileana Paul; title: 7. The semantic core of determiners: Evidence from Skwxwú7mesh / Carrie Gillon; title: Index.